{"id":450285,"date":"2026-05-20T00:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/450285\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T00:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:11:11","slug":"roland-garros-wrap-tuesday-may-19-roland-garros-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/450285\/","title":{"rendered":"Roland-Garros wrap &#8211; Tuesday May 19 &#8211; Roland-Garros 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another former Grand Slam champion, Canada\u2019s Bianca Andreescu, went  back to basics as she cleared the first hurdle in qualifying with a straight sets win over French teenager Daphnee Mpetshi Perricard, who was watched courtside by big brother and ATP star Giovanni.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/article\/2026-edition-qualifying-first-round-andreescu-my-ego-definitely-got-in-the-way\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">world No.4 told Dan Imhoff that going back to the lower levels of professional tennis recently had been the key<\/a> to banking matches and building confidence.<\/p>\n<p>Czech former world No.1 Karolina Pliskova is another top player in the women\u2019s qualifying draw and had to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/article\/2026-edition-shift-in-perspective-fires-up-pliskova\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">hit back after losing the first set 6-0 to get past South Korea\u2019s Yeonwoo Ku<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Among other notable names, there was a late win for young American Emilio Nava, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/article\/2026-edition-the-slow-burn-of-emilio-nava\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">who afterwards discussed how he sees his future game development<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>American No.3 seed Ashlyn Krueger, fifth seed Lulu Sun from New Zealand, No.4 seed Coleman Wong from Hong Kong and sixth-seeded Slovak Alex Molcan all progressed to the second round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another former Grand Slam champion, Canada\u2019s Bianca Andreescu, went back to basics as she cleared the first hurdle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-450285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}